Koeman said: “Clubs in the Premier League have bought many foreign players over the years and I acknowledge that sometimes it is necessary.

“But here in England, my admiration for the bulk of talent in the academies has grown massively.

“I admire the attitude, the spirit and the values of young English footballers. They have an incredible desire.

Mason Holgate is another to emerge at Goodison this season (Image: 2017 Getty Images)

“I have no worries about their motivation and I feel I actually have to slow them rather down than push them forward.

“Young British players have a spirit, which I don’t see in the Netherlands or other countries where I used to work.

“There is a different culture here. The problem is that managers here wait a long time before they launch young players.

“If a player has the talent, my motto is that you must give him the stage to show it.

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“But maybe it is because I am Dutch and I am used to throw the boys in at the deep end.”

Koeman has been committed to developing young talent throughout his coaching career.

Johan Cruyff recognised his natural instinct for recognising promise when he asked the Dutchman to take Pep Guardiola under his wing when the Catalan was coming through the ranks at Barcelona and Koeman was a seasoned star.

When he become assistant manager at the Nou Camp, his brief was to monitor the talent being nurtured at the club’s famed La Masia academy.

And as coach of Feyenoord he guided the Dutch club to three successive runners-up finishes - despite not being allowed to spend a penny in the transfer market because the Rotterdam giants were on the brink of bankruptcy.

Koeman then proved at Southampton that it is possible to bring forge youngsters in the heat of Premier League battle.

And he took extra pride from Everton’s recent 4-0 hammering of Guardiola’s Manchester City from having Davies, Holgate and Lookman in the team.

Koeman said: “The great thing about a young talent like Tom Davies is that the fans immediately take to them.

Koeman says fans are immediately drawn to local lads (Image: PA Wire)

“They feel a bond with a young player when he is a boy from their hometown. I know what to do with these boys.

“Against City we finished the game with three players aged 18, 19 and 20 in the side.

“We won 4-0 and yet after that we sat down with Tom Davies to show him on video where he could improve.

“Why? I did not need to tell him what he had done right. The whole world had told him that after the game.